Nextcloud-Client: How to get latest 4.x release into the repos?

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I came from Arch Linux / EndeavourOS and was using the Nextcloud client there, too. Actually, they are on version 4.0.6 on Arch and this is the latest version of the Nextcloud client on the Nextcloud website, too.

Arch Linux - nextcloud-client 2:4.0.6-1 (x86_64)

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On Fedora latest version is 3.17.4.

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How to get the latest 4.x release into the Fedora repos? Is there anything that I can do from my side?

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If you follow the links then you can see that a rc2 is available, but just from

Version:        33.0.0

The spec file changed last month:

Probably you could ask in Bugzilla how the release plan looks like for the 4x version.

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Button Iconography Absent in NextCloud Client
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33 is the version of Nextcloud in general. Nextcloud-Sync is at version 4.0.6. This is file sync client only. Not the complete Nextcloud installation. :wink:

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I think to remember that question came up before. So, that nextcloud-client is occasionally (or regularly?) not up to date. But I don’t know of the reasons / background.

You might ask the maintainers about the reasons and if/how to you can help them to improve the situation:

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Is it okay to contact the maintainers of this package via email and ask them?

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Well, it depends on your expectations. If you are willing to contribute to improve the situation, I guess it is ok to write them an email and ask about the situation and if/how you can help. You can also in advance join the #devel:fedoraproject.org [Webchat with FAS account login] and ask if anyone knows something about this before writing an email. Maybe someone in #devel:fedoraproject.org knows off the cuff.

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I just logged into the mentioned chat. I’ll ask there first. Thanks, @py0xc3 !

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Good luck. Hopefully you and the maintainers can find some useful solution. I experienced in the past that sometimes quite trivial support/contributions can make a difference, realistic to be done even for non-tech people, because sometimes it is just maintainers who are quite overwhelmed with work. Don’t know of this case, but hope remains :classic_smiley:

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I hope it is okay to ask there, because I’m not a developer. I’m just a user and as a user I should ask for help in the Fedora channel there. :wink:

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FWIW, Nextcloud Desktop Client with version 4.x is available as Flatpak in Flathub. The app is unverified though, so it might be a community packaged one.

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Thanks for mentioning it. :+1:

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I wrote into the developers chat and got a version 4.0.6 for testing. Looks good so far from my side. Let’s see if I got the new version into the repositories.

Thanks, @py0xc3 , for pointing me in that direction. :slight_smile:

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@denalb I skimmed your conversation in Matrix. Feel free to let us know if/what answer you get of the maintainers (and/or what type of help would be needed).

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Until now there is no answer. Will come back here and let you know. Thanks! :slight_smile:

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i am really looking forward to version 4 of the nextcloud client.

i need to sync in Fedora 43 KDE using VFS… and when i enable VFS the current rpm client crashes. when i use the Appimage 4.0.7 then the sync and VFS works, but the Dolphin integration not.

i really hope the updated client gets released

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I didn’t get an answer yet. I doubt that Nextcloud Client 4.x is coming soon … Sorry.

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You might consider sponsor the pakage manager for that.

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Don’t know what you mean … Should I pay for bringing the newer version into the repo? :thinking:

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lets ask …

@salimma can we do something to help?

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@denalb, V33.đť‘Ą appears to be the new naming scheme:

    1. #!/usr/bin/env sh
flatpak remote-info flathub com.nextcloud.desktopclient.nextcloud --system

    2.         ID: com.nextcloud.desktopclient.nextcloud
       Ref: app/com.nextcloud.desktopclient.nextcloud/x86_64/stable
      Arch: x86_64
    Branch: stable
   Version: 4.0.6
   License: GPL-2.0+
Collection: org.flathub.Stable
  Download: 135.6 MB
 Installed: 318.6 MB
   Runtime: org.kde.Platform/x86_64/6.10
       Sdk: org.kde.Sdk/x86_64/6.10

    Commit: f935753dddc21adfe69fbc360c58cd5c523a417211c8bd690522ae47d29ac439
    Parent: ebaa264d157ca4801e5d2934a46e03d26ea348b8e1f8624deb4c9ca346c5ce9e
   Subject: Merge pull request #230 from flathub/chore/noid/bump-dependencies (ccda02815fa9)
      Date: 2026-02-23 13:34:47 +0000

    1. #!/usr/bin/env sh
flatpak remote-info flathub-beta com.nextcloud.desktopclient.nextcloud --system

    2.         ID: com.nextcloud.desktopclient.nextcloud
       Ref: app/com.nextcloud.desktopclient.nextcloud/x86_64/beta
      Arch: x86_64
    Branch: beta
   Version: 33.0.0-rc2
   License: GPL-2.0+
Collection: org.flathub.Beta
  Download: 135.7 MB
 Installed: 318.9 MB
   Runtime: org.kde.Platform/x86_64/6.10
       Sdk: org.kde.Sdk/x86_64/6.10

    Commit: 14a884f4764455a3d30c45dd65888cc0d1a38fed15bdb8ba8354aba667a2f9bc
    Parent: 636ba2e92321aacba7c3e9de247def2b12667318177788c2efe378f63fea5faa
   Subject: Merge pull request #235 from flathub/update-beta-e94a05e (d1d36cbb6b4e)
      Date: 2026-02-27 18:27:49 +0000

However, I don’t wholly trust flathub-beta:

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